The Legitimate Rage of the People
Cannot Forever Be Denied

“I
believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressors
and those who do the the oppressing. I believe that there will be a
clash between those who want
freedom, justice, and equality for everyone
and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe
that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't believe
it will be based on the color of the skin...”

- Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik
el-Shabazz]

Due
to the hypocrisy, subterfuge, and economic & political oppression
by the U.S. corporate-owned government – which is consistently
aided and abetted by the U.S. corporate-stream media – the human
rights and civil liberties of everyday ordinary Black, White, Brown,
Red, and Yellow people in this nation and around the world are being
systematically trampled on a scale never before witnessed in this
21st century.

The
brutality of corporate domination, home foreclosures, homelessness,
judicial injustice, mass incarceration at home, and perpetual U.S.
wars of terror abroad have increased to a fever pitch in this year of
2013. The terrorist U.S. prison gulag known as Guantanamo continues
functioning unabated under the leadership of the NDAA signing, 'Kill
List,' predator-drone missile U.S. president, Barack Obama. The
police departments throughout the United States are being
increasingly militarized, and the everyday people increasingly
brutalized. As the avaricious Wall Street corporate elite (under the
leadership of its Trojan Horse head of the U.S. Empire) grows richer
the everyday people grow poorer and more trodden upon economically,
politically and socially. This of course is by systemic design not
coincidence.

Despite
the constant subterfuge, distractions, and obfuscation by the
corporate-stream media and the systemic gatekeepers of this corrupt
corporate-owned political system, the pain and legitimate rage of
struggling everyday people increases exponentially. An example of
this legitimate pain and rage on the part of ordinary people in this
nation is amply demonstrated in the short May 23, 2012 video from
Oakland, California (titled 'BellaEiko
speaks truth, pain, and rage to power')
which expresses the growing unwillingness
on the part of everyday people to accept the callousness, subterfuge,
hypocrisy, and oppression of this rotten and corrupt U.S. political
system. Though the corporate-stream media will not honestly or
forthrightly inform you of this increasing legitimate rage, the fact
is that ordinary people of all colors and both genders are becoming
increasingly fed-up
with both the veiled and
overt
repression by this corporate-owned U.S. political system. The
legitimate rage of the people will not be denied!

The
systematically-adorned gatekeepers of both the Democrat and
Republican parties - including
some so-called
anti-war 'peace' activists and organizations in this nation -
continue to support the bloody outrages of Barack Obama and
his ilk, even as they
make high-sounding speeches and sell their books – which serve to
distract and pimp the terrible pain of everyday Black, White, Brown,
Red, and Yellow people. These persons (irrespective of their color or
gender) have a de facto vested interest in the
continuation of what
Malcolm X referred to as “the system of exploitation.”

It
is of enormous
significance that
Ppnews
(Political
Prisoner News) in a recent statement under the heading, Obama
Shuts Down Office In Charge of Guantanamo Resettlement Efforts,
noted, in relevant part, the following:

“The office of the special envoy
in charge of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay has been shut down,
the Obama administration has announced. Coming almost exactly four
years after the President promised to close the prison within a year,
this move effectively signals the end of Obama's attempts to help
with resettlement of those men still held.

A
statement quietly released on Friday [January 25th] afternoon by the
State Department stated that special envoy Daniel Fried had been
reassigned, his office closed, and his responsibilities around
Guantanamo given to the already overstretched State Department legal
adviser...

Hilary
Stauffer, Reprieve’s Deputy Legal Director, said: “Yunnus
Chekkouri, Abu Wa’el Dhiab, Nabil Hadjarab and all the other men
who are being held with neither charge nor trial have just been
completely
abandoned by the Obama administration.
By closing Ambassador Fried’s office the President has
broken his promise to close the prison and shattered the hope that
these men might everbe able to
leave.
Government resources necessary for closing Guantanamo must be in
place and have the authority to negotiate transfers with potential
host governments.”

This
is yet another indication that Obama and the corporate-owned U.S.
government's so-called 'war on
terror' is in reality a war
ofterror being
carried out by the U.S. corporate/military elite against the people
of this nation and world. It is also a clear signal to people
throughout Mother Earth that the U.S. government has no genuine
commitment to human rights at home or abroad. Obama – the Trojan
Horse – strikes yet again and people in this nation and around the
world have, of necessity, every right to legitimate rage.

The
aspirations, needs, and will of everyday people cannot be forever
stifled. They cannot forever be deferred and denied! The numerous
political prisoners, including Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Lynne Stewart and so
very many others
being held right here in the prison gulags inside the United States
are reminders of the fact that this government (and its
organizational and individual accomplices) will utilize any and every
dastardly tactic to viciously frame, discredit imprison and/or kill
those who stand up to, and seek to expose, its hypocrisy and
injustice. Nevertheless, we
the people
have the power of the truth of millions upon millions of everyday
people on our side. In the words of the late poet Langston Hughes,
“What happens to a dream deferred?” Ultimately, the legitimate
rage and power of the people will “explode” and bring about a
new, more humane and just model of human interaction. This is what
this long and protracted people's struggle is really all about. And
this is what will, in the final analysis, prevail.

So
remember: Each one, reach one. Each one, teach one. Despite the
formidable obstacles, all justice and peace-loving people are in this
struggle TOGETHER! Onward, then, my sisters and brothers. Onward –
towards a new day!

BlackCommentator.comEditorial Board member and Columnist, Larry
Pinkney, is a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister
of Interior of the Republic of New Africa, a former political prisoner
and the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil /
political rights case to the United Nations under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In connection with his
political organizing activities in opposition to voter suppression,
etc., Pinkney was interviewed in 1988 on the nationally televised PBS News Hour, formerly known as The MacNeil / Lehrer News Hour. For more about Larry Pinkney see the book, Saying No to Power: Autobiography of a 20th Century Activist and Thinker, by William Mandel [Introduction by Howard Zinn]. (Click here to read excerpts from the book.) Click here to view Larry’s interview of October 26, 2012. Click here to contact Mr. Pinkney.